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B1-8 Relative pronouns : what, who, how, and where

Relative pronouns are used to add information to a sentence.
-QUE is used when referring to people, animals, or things. It is applied when mentioning a noun previously named.
‘El que, la que, los que and las que’ have the same purpose as ‘que’, and they share the article with the noun they refer to. They can follow prepositions like ‘con’, ‘a’, ‘de’…

DONDE is only used to refer to places.
‘En el que’, ‘en la que’, ‘en los que’, ‘en las que’ and ‘en el lugar que’ all have the same meaning as ‘donde’.
ADONDE is also used when talking about the “where”.
‘Al que’, ‘a la que’, ‘a los que’, ‘a las que’ and ‘al lugar en el que’ share the same meaning as ‘adonde’.